__NOTOC__ Victoria River is a locality in the

Northern Territory of Australia The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...

located about south of the territory capital of Darwin and about south of the municipal seat in

Katherine Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and other variations are feminine names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria. In the early Christ ...

. The locality consists of the following land (from west to east) – the Humbert River pastoral lease, land described as NT Portion 1568, the Wambardi Aboriginal Land Trust, the Victoria River Downs pastoral lease, the Camfield pastoral lease, the Montejinni West pastoral lease, the Killarney pastoral lease, the Montejinni East pastoral lease, the Dungowan pastoral lease and the Birrimba pastoral lease. The locality fully surrounds the locality of Yarralin and the community of Pigeon Hole and the town of Top Springs. It has an area of . The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Its name is derived from the river of the same name which flows through the locality from the south to the north and which was named in 1839 by Captains Wickham and Stokes of ''

HMS Beagle HMS ''Beagle'' was a 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class. The vessel, constructed at a cost of £7,803 (roughly equivalent to £ in 2018), was launched on 11 May 1820 from the Woolwich Dockyard on t ...

'' after

Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previo ...

, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The

Buchanan Highway The Buchanan Highway, Northern Territory, Australia, runs west from Birdum on the Stuart Highway crossing the Buntine Highway at Top Springs and eventually connecting with the Victoria Highway near Timber Creek. it was unsealed for its en ...

passes through the locality from the

Stuart Highway Stuart Highway is a major Australian highway. It runs from Darwin, in the Northern Territory, via Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, to Port Augusta in South Australia; a distance of . Its northern and southern extremities are segments of Aus ...

in the east to the

Victoria Highway The Victoria Highway links the Great Northern Highway in Western Australia with the Stuart Highway in the Northern Territory. The highway is a part of the Perth - Darwin National Highway link. It is signed as National Highway 1, and is part ...

in the north-west. The Buntine Highway passes through the locality from the south to the north and meets the Buchanan Highway at Top Springs. Victoria River includes the following sites that have been listed on the

Northern Territory Heritage Register The Northern Territory Heritage Register is a heritage register, being a statutory list of places in the Northern Territory of Australia that are protected by the Northern Territory statute, the ''Heritage Act 2011''. The register is maintained b ...

: the Bullock Creek Fossil Site, Jasper Gorge and the Murranji Track including the following five sites associated with the track and which have been separately registered - Murranji Track, Jump-Up Cairn, Murranji Track, No. 12 Bore, Murranji Track, No. 13 Bore, Murranji Track, No. 14 (Pussycat) Bore Dipyard and Murranji Track, Surveyor Well's Cairn. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Victoria River had 152 people living within its boundaries. Victoria River is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Stuart and the local government area of the

Victoria Daly Region The Victoria Daly Regional Council is a local government area in the Northern Territory of Australia. The shire covers an area of and had a population of 3,138 in June 2018. History In October 2006 the Northern Territory Government announce ...

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{{Localities and communities of the Victoria Daly Region, state=collapsed Populated places in the Northern Territory Victoria Daly Region